Shitty Million Dollar Ideas

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New Typeset/Font where some Letters look the very same. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/shitty_million_dollar_ideas@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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We replace some characters with a common character, so we don't have as many of them. Basically: merging.

I recomnend: a&e, o&u, y&i for "vowels" r&l, n&m, b&d, f&s, w&t, p&c for consonants.

This will help streamlining the english language.

Example text, where letter pairs are merged into the first of the two: (The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog) Wha qoypk brown fox junpf ovar wha razy bog.

(Supercalifragilisticexpiallygocious) Foparcaryfragyryfwypaxpyarrygopioof

(Much better) Noch bawwar

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[–] haerrii@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Building on this comes my shitty idea: English grammar is hard. We need something simpler, more streamlined. Propose Afrikaans grammar for english, let me cite a few paragraphs from the afrikaans wikipedia article:

In Afrikaans grammar, there is no distinction between the infinitive and present forms of verb

In addition, verbs do not conjugate differently depending on the subject.

Only a handful of Afrikaans verbs have a preterite [...] All other verbs use the perfect tense, het + past participle (ge-), for the past. Therefore, there is no distinction in Afrikaans between I drank and I have drunk.

When telling a longer story, Afrikaans speakers usually avoid the perfect and simply use the present tense, or historical present tense instead (as is possible, but less common, in English as well).

Generating an example sentence with OP's and these rules is left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

[I recomnend: a&e, o&u, y&i for "vowels" r&l, n&m, b&d, f&s, w&t, p&c for consonants.]

Damn, me being the reader, who understood none of it, is quite frustrating. Eh!

Bann, na yf wha raabar, who onbarfwanbf nona of yt, yf qoyta froftratyng. Ah!

Some fonts are worth millions, like Adobe Illustrator ("the king of fonts"), yet I struggle to see value in your addition, beyond the obvious.

Fona fontf ara worth nyorryonf, ryka Adoba Yrroftrator ("wha kyng of fontf"), yat Y ftroggra to faa valoa yoor abbytyon, bayonb wha obvyof.

Did I do it right?

Bona Y bona yt ryght?